🐺 Jo Ⓥ

I love wolves, horrified irrational prejudice towards them still exists.Passionate about animals/nature. Woke. Snowflake. #XDissenter

[Mary Colwell @curlewcalls]

The case for a #GCSENatural History made eloquently and passionately by @CarolineLucas today. “Help young people fall in love with the earth again” We will protect what we love and we love what we understand. Teach the next generation about nature now.
https://t.co/oXY90fUIrJ

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

So much for democracy.

I don't remember anyone being asked to vote for a dictator.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

I made a very big decision this week.

Larry is well enough to get his forever home. I wasn’t sure with his medical worries and his behavior but I now know he will fit in somewhere perfectly.

A wonderful wonderful dog is big Larry (8/8)

[🐺 Jo Ⓥ @noush555]

@owenjonesjourno I was suffering from similar symptoms -acid plus contstant burping. I believe extreme anxiety was the initial cause. It seemed even worse on Lanzoprazole. I had an endoscopy which concluded I had a haitus hernia and gastritus. I was prescribed pantoprozole which seems to suit me

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Reform UK leader @Nigel_Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR

Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientists hold back tears and shake their heads sadly as they explain utterly compromised COP29 climate conference was meant to be the last chance to organise rapid and deep emissions cuts for any chance of staying well below essentially unsurvivable 2°C 🧵

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

I was getting a haircut here in North Carolina, and my barber told me that the recent devastation from the hurricane has him about ready to believe in climate change. A lot of conservatives are starting to understand that this is really happening.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I was into rewilding, long before the term was ever invented.

I grew up in the English countryside, before there were generous EU subsidies for farming. There were many small abandoned paddocks, and other corners of agricultural land. Abandoned farms and houses.
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

Then I come across a poisonous Telegraph article attacking Net Zero and claiming it is destroying jobs.

The right wing media, is just a sick, lying propaganda machine, gaslighting and corrupting society.
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

Hi @Ed_Miliband. Here's what I learned from reading your article. You have absolutely no understanding of the climate and ecological crisis, and the situation we face.

Why not consult some real experts, instead of scientifically illiterate economists?
https://t.co/k8rHyRQptm

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

It's all about trends, what we are heading towards in the future, not what is happening now.

Yet poor old delusional @Ed_Miliband was spouting on about economic growth and higher future living standards. Really? What planet does Ed live on? It's clearly, not planet Earth.
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[XR Northampton 👞 @XRNorthampton]

Actual photo of the UK Govt acting on climate change by not issuing new North Sea oil and gas licenses:

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

It really is very simple. No human being should have that level of power and wealth. It is not necessary, and a danger to humanity, when these narcissists, use that great power and wealth, to create chaos, as a distraction, from their shameless corrupt and criminal actions.
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

These are very dangerous individuals, who are threatening humanity, because of their selfishness, and their lack of a moral compass. It's all about untrammelled power and wealth. These individuals are out of control.
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

This is a dangerous pattern we see all over the world, where especially right wing, but not always, authoritarians, take the world to the brink, and perpetrate heinous crimes, just to avoid personal accountability.
https://t.co/YndVufEana
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[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Industrial farming is choking our planet . Yet at a time when we should be supporting farmers to invest in restoring nature and transitioning away from destructive animal ag , the news that government have slashed wildlife-friendly budgets even further is plain insanity

#Peston

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Life for everyone on this planet is about to change in unimaginable ways. We could’ve stopped if we’d acted instead of letting the media tell us the science wasn’t certain. We must act now. A holiday park near Northampton, UK, yesterday #StormBert

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

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[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Just a reminder that you can find me on Bluesky, which is like Twitter but without the hoards of rancid fuckwits in your replies. Link below or in my bio 😀
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